Sentence examples for procurement authorities from inspiring English sources

Buyers include the four military services; nine joint commands (for example, Central Command, which is conducting the war in the Persian Gulf); 16 defense agencies (the Defense Logistics Agency, for instance); and numerous other entities with independent procurement authorities.

In awarding contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, and in entering into other transactions under subparagraph (B) or (D) of paragraph (4), the Secretary shall have the expedited procurement authorities, the authority to expedite peer review, and the authority for personal services contracts, supplied by subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 247d 6a of this title.

We reviewed the public procurement legislation and other official documents issued by the national procurement authorities of 7 sub-Saharan African countries for provisions concerning framework agreements (Table).

For countries without legislative provision for framework agreements, we recommend that public procurement authorities work toward legislative reform that includes such provisions in public procurement legislation.

The procurement authorities have the option to either not issue the second PO or issue it for 25% or 50% of the tender quantity, thereby building in a flexibility of 25%.

Four out of the 16 countries used a combination of data from both procurement authorities and government affiliated public hospitals, while the remaining four collected procurement data from either government hospitals, or tenders from wholesalers.

To become a 'preferred provider', which local authorities will recommend to personal budget holders, often requires compliance with procurement procedures that are beyond the capacity of very small organisations.

Realizing that his discovery would not only make boats go faster but also would allow the development of amphibious craft, Cockerell approached the Ministry of Supply, the British government's defense-equipment procurement authority.

For the purposes of this section, the term "PBO" includes the Chief Operating Officer of the PBO and any employee of the PBO exercising procurement authority under the preceding sentence.

Still, the procurement laws of both Ghana and Kenya also do not explicitly mention framework agreements, but supplemental guidelines or manuals on their use have been issued by each country's procurement authority.

Because the European public procurement regime – the cause of the extended tendering processes so disliked by public authorities – does not apply where there is no profit motive.